"Meta AI isn't available yet in your country"
Hi from europe :/
We had a brief, abnormal, and special moment in time after the crypto wars ended in the mid-2000s where software products were truly global, and the internet was more or less unregulated and completely open (at least in most of the world). Sadly it seems that this era has come to a close, and people have not yet updated their understanding of the world to account for that fact.
People are also not great at thinking through the second order effects of the policies they advocate for (e.g. the GDPR), and are often surprised by the results.
Each new large regulation adds another category of company to the list of those who choose not to participate. Sure, you can always label them as companies who don't value principle X, but at some point it stops being the fault of the companies and you have to start looking at whether there are too many enormous regulations slowing down tech releases.
The word fault somehow implies that something’s wrong - from the eu regulator’s perspective, what’s happening is perfectly normal, and what they want : at some point, the advances in insert new tech are not worth the (social) cost to individuals, so they make things more complicated/ ask companies to behave differently.
Now I’m not saying the regulations are good, required, etc : just that depending on your goal, there are multiple points of view, with different landing zones.
I also suspect that what’s happening now ( meta, apple slowing down) is a power play : they’re just putting pressure on the eu, but I’m harboring doubts that this can work at all.
Why do you think he is surprised? I think very few are surprised.
Other than that, and GDPR (which is generally now regarded as a good thing), I'm not sure what requirements you've got in mind.
The only solution is a worldwide government that can impose laws in all countries at once, but that's unlikely to happen any time soon.
A Gibsonesque global Turing Police is a sure sign of Dystopia.
Let's hope the next moustached guy that tries to do this ends up dying in a bunker just like the last one.